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Frankisms
Short truths, collected over a lifetime of writing and teaching. Read a few, or lose an afternoon.
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“Your first priority in any encounter should be to add value to the other person’s life. — Bob Burg”
inspiration
“Your mind should always be your strongest weapon in your game. — Jack Nicklaus”
inspiration
“Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. — Stuart Henderson Britt”
marketing
“Doing half the job well is worse than not doing it at all. — Seth Godin”
marketing
“Email is the most effective way to sell books. — Thomas Umstattd”
marketing
“Entrepreneurs, the successful ones, have on average nine failures for every success. — Charles Handy”
marketing
“Every single time you meet one new person and cultivate a relationship with that person to the point where they know, like, and trust you, you have just increased your personal sphere of influence not by one but by a potential 250 at least. — Bob Burg”
marketing
“Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. — John Kenneth Galbraith”
marketing
“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. — Napoleon Bonaparte”
marketing
“Great salespeople grow great networks because they focus their actions on looking out for the other person’s interests and serving their needs. — Bob Burg”
marketing
“If we do not take the time to give ourselves our own identification, how can we expect the customer to identify us and know who we are? — Ray Considine”
marketing
“Intuition and experience are poor predictors of which products and businesses will be profitable. — Timothy Ferriss”
marketing
“It is more profitable to be a big fish in a small pond than a small undefined fish in a big pond. — Timothy Ferriss”
marketing
“Metcalf’s Law: The value of a network grows in proportion to the square of the number of users. — Tim Sanders”
marketing
“Most people have five credit cards in their wallet, but 80 percent of their purchases are made with the card at the top of the wallet. — Tim Sanders”
marketing
“Muhammad Ali did not become heavyweight champion of the world by punching twenty people one time each. — Seth Godin”
marketing
“One of the greatest ways of creating value for people is by connecting them to other people and suggesting ways they can do business. — Bob Burg”
marketing
“Only by understanding the other person’s point of view, the customer’s position, can we make our cause known and appreciated. — Ray Considine”
marketing
“Since 75 percent of the people read the headlines and only 25 percent keep on reading, make sure your headline tells an accurate story in one quick flash. — Ray Considine”
marketing
“Tell a man something new and you have his attention. Give it a personal twist or show its relation to his business and you have his interest. — Robert Collier”
marketing
“The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet. — William Gibson”
marketing
“The initial positive responses, given by people who want to be liked and aim to please, become polite refusals as soon as real money is at stake. To get an accurate indicator of commercial viability, don’t ask people if they would buy — ask them to buy. The response to the second is the only one that matters. — Timothy Ferriss”
marketing
“We think that visitors are much more interested in our websites than we are interested in other websites. — Thomas Umstattd”
marketing
“What gets measured gets managed. — Peter Drucker, management theorist, author of 31 books, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom”
marketing
“What is so interesting about giving is not only that it pays, but that it pays in such unexpected ways. — Bob Burg”
marketing
“What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. — Abraham Lincoln”
marketing
“What makes a great salesperson great at sales is that he or she is wholeheartedly interested in the other person. — Bob Burg”
marketing
“What people want is something about themselves. — Thomas Umstattd”
marketing
“When you go fishing, you ought to use the most effective, most obvious bait you can find. — Seth Godin”
marketing
“You need more than a gun to be a gunslinger. — Seth Godin”
marketing
“A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours. — Malcolm S. Forbes”
philosophy
“A bored person is one who is unacquainted with himself and God. — Helen Keller”
philosophy
“A choice means that you can do it, or not do it. — Robert Fritz”
philosophy
“A common strategy in life is to take something that matters to you and translate it into a sense of obligation, so that you manipulate yourself into doing what you want to do anyway. — Robert Fritz”
philosophy
“A faith that hasn’t been tested can’t be trusted. — Adrain Rogers”
philosophy
“A feeling is about as opposite to a fact as you can get. — Dwight V. Swain”
philosophy
“A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial. — Thomas Fuller”
philosophy
“A good price is not necessarily what an object is marked, but what it is worth to you. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
philosophy
“A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant. — Maria Montessori”
philosophy
“A laugh is a smile that bursts. — Mary H. Waldrip”
philosophy